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Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về hóa học được đăng trên tạp chí hóa hoc quốc tế đề tài : What is traditional pastoral farming? The politics of heritage and ‘real values’ in Swedish summer farms (fäbodbruk) | Eriksson Pastoralism Research Policy and Practice 2011 1 25 http content 1 1 25 o Pastoralism a SpringerOpen Journal RESEARCH Open Access What is traditional pastoral farming The politics of heritage and real values in Swedish summer farms fabodbruk Camilla Eriksson Correspondence Camilla. eriksson@ Department of Urban and Rural Development Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Ulls vag 28 . Box 7012 Uppsala 750 07 Sweden Springer Abstract The number of pastoralists maintaining production systems with small numbers of traditional breeds of cattle decreased dramatically with the modernisation and industrialisation of agriculture in Europe during the twentieth century. While these pastoral systems were not compatible with agricultural industrialisation policies they provide a far better match to current European Union EU policy with its emphasis on high nature values and various cultural heritage protection measures. Today these farms can obtain EU funding for preserving natural and or cultural heritage values rather than producing agricultural goods. Although such EU subsidies make a welcome contribution to the livelihood of traditional farmers the critical definitions that have to be made regarding what is considered traditional or non-traditional can be problematic. This paper provides an example from Swedish fabodbruk a smallholder system of forest pasturing with traditional breeds of cattle goats and sheep in northern Sweden. As policymaking and agricultural subsidies during the twentieth century reflected the contemporary political agenda of that time farmers have been subjected to many changes in priority in political decision making. The contemporary push for traditional farming and heritage has made policymaking potentially even more difficult . as regards the question of what should be considered traditional and what makes up natural and cultural heritage. This paper examines how farmers are affected by .